Photograph Your 2D & 3D Practice with Les & andrey Walkling

Learn how to document your practice from master photographers Les and andrey Walkling. This intensive two-day course will teach you the practical skills and understanding needed to successfully document your 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional works, including paintings, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, costumes, jewellery, glassware and photographs, as well as provide you with the confidence and insight to commission professional documentation of your practice.

This course is for people who are passionate about their practice and are seeking to gain the skills to capture their work in the best light for print publications and via the web.

Specific topics include

Cameras and Lighting

Lenses, tripods, stability and optimum apertures

Lighting equipment, controls and modifications

Light tents, light boxes and seamless grounds

Flash versus continuous lighting

Optical diffraction, distortion and chromatic aberration

Tethered capture

2D Works

Geometry, alignment and scale

Flat lighting flat works

Balanced lighting with Equalight software

Reproducing surfaces, textures and colours

Drawings versus paintings versus prints

White balance and quality controls

3D Works

Perspective - drawing with a lens

Depth of field calculations

Lighting highlights, shadows and the third dimension

Negative spaces

Lighting backgrounds and light boxes

Green/blue screen and masking considerations

Post processing

RAW versus JPEG workflows

The five fundamentals of image editing

Catalogues, metadata and colour spaces

Print, web and archive standards and file formats

Monitor calibration and soft proofing

Pre press, hard proofs, guide prints and viewing conditions

Artists will also be given the opportunity to put all these skills to practice in the studio by photographing their works of art and taking home a high quality colour corrected reproduction of one of their works.